My faucet has weak flow. Is that a plumbing problem?
Usually not, if it is only one fixture. Unscrew the aerator at the tip of the spout, rinse out the sediment caught in the screen, and reinstall it. That resolves it most of the time and takes two minutes with no tools. If cleaning the aerator does not help, or if flow is weak at every fixture in the house, that is a different situation and worth a call.
Should I repair my faucet or replace it?
Repair, if it is a decent faucet. A cartridge costs a fraction of a new fixture, and a quality faucet will happily take several cartridges over its life — replacing the whole thing over a worn seal is genuinely wasteful. The exceptions are fixtures where parts are no longer manufactured, or budget faucets where the body itself has corroded. We will tell you honestly which situation you are in.
Why do my faucet cartridges keep failing?
Almost always sediment in the water abrading the seals. Russellville is on a surface water supply that carries seasonal suspended solids, and those solids are hard on cartridge seals and valve seats. If you are replacing the same cartridge every eighteen months, the answer is point-of-entry sediment filtration rather than another cartridge — it costs less than the parts you will otherwise keep buying.
What are quarter-turn shutoff valves and why do you recommend them?
They are the shutoff valves on the supply lines under a sink or toilet, and quarter-turn ball valves replace the older multi-turn compression stops. We push this because of what happens when you need them. Older stops seize with age, and people discover that while trying to stop a leaking supply line at 11 PM — at which point the only option is closing the main and losing water to the whole house. Upgrading them is inexpensive, quick, and materially improves how your next plumbing emergency goes.
There is water in my sink cabinet. How do I know where it is coming from?
Once water has spread across a cabinet floor, supply-side and drain-side leaks look identical, so it genuinely does need tracing. A useful home test: dry everything thoroughly, then run water down the drain without using the faucet. If water appears, it is the drain assembly. If it only appears when the faucet runs, it is supply-side or the faucet body. Either way, check the cabinet base — these leaks usually run for months before anyone notices.
Do you take small jobs like a single dripping faucet?
Yes, and at the same flat-rate quote and with the same licensed plumber as any other job. We do not pad small visits with minimum charges to make them worth our while. That said, if the fix is genuinely something you can do yourself in two minutes — a clogged aerator being the usual case — we will tell you that on the phone instead.
